Formação inicial de professor de matemática

Abstract

This work hás the aim to report to report the efforts made by Instituto de Matemática at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (IM-UFRJ) to improve the preservice mathematics teacher education. We have engaged ourselves in activities of teaching, research, and inservice teacher education with the concern to prepare an educator who has both mathematics and mathematics education knowledge. That means, an educator who is conscious of the complexities involved in the process of teaching and assessing mathematics learning and also worried in creating a good teacher-student relationship. For about fifteen years, researches from IM-UFRJ have investigated the influence of actions that can enhance teacher preparation. These actions have been occurring in three lines: the curriculum complementation of preservice teachers through their engagement in the activities of Projeto Fundão (PF); the involvement of preservice teachers I classroom mini-investigations; and the modernization of the mathematics teacher education curriculum. With these actions we have realized that we are in the right direction to prepare professionals ready to act at the XXI century.